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# Blake Lively, star of It Ends With Us, under fire after series of interviews in the 2000s come to light where the actress repeatedly used transphobic slur
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/blake-lively-star-of-it-ends-with-us-under-fire-after-series-of-interviews-in-the-2000s-come-to-light-where-the-actress-repeatedly-used-transphobic-slur/
- Published: 2024-08-19T11:31:49.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-19T11:31:49.000Z
- Description: Blake Lively, star of romance film It Ends With Us, has come under fire after a series of interviews in the 2000s, where the actress repeatedly used a transphobic slur, were shared on social media. The interview with Elle revealed she wanted to have daughters or ‘tr**nies’ because she wants to be ab
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: LGBT, LGBTQ, transphobia

**Blake Lively**, star of romance film *It Ends With Us*, has come under fire after a series of interviews in the 2000s, where the actress repeatedly used a transphobic slur, were shared on social media.

The interview with *Elle* revealed she wanted to have daughters or ‘tr\*\*nies’ because she wants to be able to hand down her shoe and handbag collection.

An extract from the interview, which has gone viral on X, prompted a series of replies highlighting other occasions when Lively used the slur in the 2000s.

In the original chat with *Elle*, Lively is quoted as saying: ‘I hope to have a few girls one day. If not girls, they’d better be tr\*\*nies. Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.’

> She said it again here too. The early 2000s were a terrible time for language like this, so many people casually used these words. [pic.twitter.com/cK8VLH3gFN](https://t.co/cK8VLH3gFN?ref=scenemag.co.uk)  
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> — alli. ✨ (@AlliApplebum) [August 18, 2024](https://twitter.com/AlliApplebum/status/1825205171086819751?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=scenemag.co.uk)

The star, who went onto have three daughters and one son, used the term again in a 2009 interview with *Allure* magazine.

‘I feel like a tr\*\*ny a lot of the time. I don’t know, I’m … large? They put me in six-inch heels and I tower over every man. I’ve got this long hair and lots of clothes and makeup on … I just feel really big a lot of the time, and I’m surrounded by a lot of tiny people. I feel like a man sometimes.’

And in a third example, she repeats the slur in an on-screen interview with her then-*Gossip Girl* castmate **Leighton Meester**.

An off-screen interviewer is heard asking the pair about rumours they ‘didn’t get on.’

Lively replied: ‘If you read the gossip magazines, everybody is dating everyone, everybody hates everyone, everybody has had like tons of plastic surgery and they’re actually men and tr\*\*nies. It’s just like: you don’t listen to the rumours.’

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/88658773-13755441-image-a-23_1724014311681-e1724066643527.jpg)

One X user highlighted the original *Elle* magazine quote with the caption: ‘Sometimes I’ll be quietly going about my day and then I’ll remember the time Blake Lively said this to a journalist.’

A separate Reddit threat posted one day ago accused Lively of dropping a ‘transphobic slur’ in a video clip which has since been deleted.

In the responses, a commenter wrote: ‘That’s awful!’

Lively has been embroiled in a negative media campaign fuelled by rumours of an on-set feud with **Justin Baldoni**, 40, – her co-star and director for her latest film *It Ends With Us*.